Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

summary or the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued in
structions that the United States steamship
Michigan shall be at Detroit on the 18th
and 18th Of September to take part in the
ceremonies OF the reunion of the Army of
the Tennessee, and at Chicago from the 1st
to the Goth of October for the military en-
campment.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has consented to
act as arbitrator between Nicaragua and
Costa Rica as to the ownership of the strip
Of land over which the ship canal is pro-
posed to be built.
THE public debt statement for July
showed a decrease during the month OF
81. S4, 694
IT is asserted in Washington that Senator
Riddleberger will make an open issue with
Malone in Virginia politics.
THE Secretary OF State has received in
telligence of the death of Mrs. hubbard,
wife Of the United States Minister to
japan. Mrs. Hubbard had been in i'll
health for many months.
AT meeting OF the citizens of the Dis
trict OF Columbia held on the I'd, resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted calling on
the President to remove the Commissioners
Of the District.
GENERAL RosECRANs recently presented
to President Cleveland and Pension Com
missioner Black resolutions of Iowa mem
bers OF the Grand Army of the Republic
denunciatory OF other Grand Army men
who objected to Mr.. Cleveland's presence
in the encampment at st. Louis because Of
his veto Of the Dependent and other pen
sion bills.
DR. d. e. SALMON, chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, left Washington recently
for Delaware and Ulster Counties, N. Y, ito
ITNn IN fbn 81,
monla- The disease was introduced into
these counties by two car loads of cattle
shipped from the stock yards in New York
City last March and April.
THE Siamese Prince and his suite reached
Washington on the 4th and spent the day
visiting the pub bile buildings.
THE President has decided to make
short stop at Columbus, O., and Indianap-
oils, Ind, on his way West in October.
THE EAST.
JAMES MARTIN fell off the Brooklyn
bridge the other day while carrying a
bucket OF paint. He struck the water on
his chest, but was not found seriously in
jured when rescued by tugboat.
DAM on the mountains near Wilkes
barre, Pa, gave way the other day, swamp
ing the village of Parsons. The people had
to fee for their lives, a child named Annie
Quinn being washed away and drowned.
The thirty-seven firms composing the
Leather Manufacturers Association of
Newark, n. j., shut down on the 1st. The
reasons alleged were over-production and
Knights of Labor
THE New York Republican State con-
ventior will be held at Saratoga, Septem-
Der II.
BY the explosion of a gasoline lamp at
picnic near Pittsburgh, Pa, the other
night, five persons were badly burned-one
fatally.
A HUNGARIAN coke drawer went to work
the other day at the works of the Blair Iron
and Coal Company, Galebran, Pa. Later
number of his countrymen sought him and
murdered him for being a traitor to the
cause OF their strike.
THE wages of the employees of the Henry
Clay and St Charles furnaces at Columbia,
Pa, have been reduced ten cents a day.
THE niece of Mrs. A. T. Stewart has sued
Judge Hilton and William Libbey, execu-
tors, for an accounting of the A. T. Stewart
estate. She alleges that the estate has
been despoiled of between SIS, 00O, 600 and
$20,OO0,OOO
A HURRICANE, accompanied by rain and
hail, prevailed at New Brunswick, N. j.
for an hour and a half on the I'd. The rain
fall was the heaviest in many years The
storm also ragged with violence at Knots
dale, Pa.
DANIEL DESMOND, clerk for New York
dry goods firm, has been arrested for hav-
ing empezzied S12, 900 in the sale of laces.
NATIONAL district assembly of the
Knights OF Labor was formed in Buffalo,
N. Y, recently.
THE New York Democratic State conven-
ton will be held at Saratoga August 80.
AT special meeting of the board of
trustees of the New York Soldiers and
Sailors Home, held at Bath, N. Y, Treas
urer ROBBIE was ousted. An examination
of his books showed him to be 50, 600 short
The National Civil Service Reform
League opened its annual session at New
port, R. l., on the Sd. George William
Curtis delivered the address.
A CRAZY Irishman named Mooney at
tempted to blow up the British steamer
Queen at New York recently by throwing
an explosive on board, which set fire to the
vessel He was arrested and the flames
suppressed.
THE schedules filed in the assignment of
William I. Cunningham & Sons, of New
York and Philadelphia, who recently tried
to corner the prune market, but failed
show liabilities, S1,075, 1875; contingent liza
oilities, S35, US; nominal assets, 81, 275, PSI;
actual assets, 1913, 100.
THE $4,000 trotting stallion Norwood
Chief dropped dead on the Elmira, II. "
track the other evening.
JAMES HoGG, hosiery, Philadelphia, has
failed with $50, 900 liabilities and 1000 as
sets.
AFTER a hot discussion the county com-
mittee OF the United Labor party at New
York decided that no socialist is entitled to
membership in the United Labor party.
. A FIRE at Syracuse, n. V, the other
morning damaged the extensive saddlery
and hardware mandatory of Frazer q
Jones to the amount of 100000, which is
covered by insurance OF about $4,000.